Ruth Leon recommends… Senseless Kindness – English National Ballet
Ruth Leon recommendsSenseless Kindness – English National Ballet
A former principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, choreographer Yuri Possokhov creates a work for a UK company for the first time.
This piece for four dancers, Senseless Kindness, is based on Vasily Grossman’s novel, Life and Fate, about a Russian family caught in the Second World War, and is set to Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No 1.
Using bold lighting and a stark, textured black and white approach, director Thomas James’s poetic and elegant film reveals the frantic endurance of the human spirit to endure, and to enjoy.
Dancers: Francesco Gabriele Frola, Emma Hawes, Isaac Hernández, Alison McWhinney
Rental also includes a bonus Behind the Scenes mini-documentary, featuring Yuri Possokhov, and dancers Alison McWhinney and Isaac Hernandez. Documentary by Michael Nunn & William Trevitt.
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